department of medicine

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Meet the Faculty

The program is administered by Darilyn Moyer, MD. She reports directly to the Chair of Medicine. The Residency offices are located on the 8th floor, Room 812, of the Parkinson Pavillion. 

(Pictured above, from left to right)

William Brady, MD, Associate Program Director

Rafik Samuel, MD, Associate Program Director

Lawrence Ward, MD, MPH, FACP, Associate Program Director for Ambulatory Education

Roger Beckwith, Residency Program staff

Maria Cruz, Program Coordinator

Susan Gersh, MD, Deputy Program Director

Darilyn Moyer, MD, Program Director

Jay Jimenez, Residency Program staff

For academic year 2009-2010, there are five chief medical residents--four for Temple University Hospital and one for Abington Hospital (on a rotating basis). Since 2007, one of these chief residents has dedicated time to developing the program's Ambulatory education. This year's chief residents are (pictured below, from left to right) Kyle Robinson , Julie Collins, Brett Laurence, Gina Simoncini (Ambulatory Chief) and Tim Doberstein.

Temple Chief Medical Residents, 2009-2010

Other key clinical faculty members of the program administration include:

Shiva Chandrasekaran, MD

Gerard Criner, MD, RICU Director

Sharon Herring, MD, MPH

Lawrence Kaplan, MD, Section Chief, General Internal Medicine

Mary Kraemer, MD

Holly Dushkin, MD, Director, Fox Chase Cancer Center site

Karen Lin, MD, MPH

Brian Meyer, MD

Anu Paranjape, MD, MPH

Alisa Peet, MD, Associate Director of Medicine Clerkship

Ben Sanchez, MD, CCU Director

David Smith, MD, Director, Abington Hospital site

Bizath Taqui, MD, Journal Club Director

Stephanie Ward, MD, MPH

Brian Wolfe, MD

The administrative support is:

Maria Cruz	Roger Beckwith	Jay Jimenez

Many other faculty give major contributions to the residency program. Please refer to the faculty directory for more information.

Among them are:

Jose Missri, MD, Section Chief, Cardiology
Jacob Ufberg, MD, Residency Program Director, Emergency Medicine
Kevin Williams, MD, Section Chief, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Robert, Fisher, MD, Section Chief, Gastroenterology
A. Koneti Rao, MD, Section Chief, Hematology
Thomas Fekete, MD, Section Chief, Infectious Diseases
Philip Cohen, MD, Section Chief, Rheumatology